The colloction of agricultutal implements was remarkable. Chicago seems to 

 manuftcturo almost every thliip;, and tlie wonder grew at every step at the progress 

 mado by t!iis "(.Jarden city," our visit to which will remain among our most agreealjlo 

 reminiscences, whore private hosj)itality, tlie most generous and kind, was mingled with 

 society of the truly intellectual and progressive. 



From Chicago we proceeded to Galena, near the Mississippi, and examined the lead 

 mines, returning via the Illinois Central Ilailroad. which runs directly through the state 

 to Cairo ; stopped at St. Louis, and thence visited Cincinnati, thus having a fair view of 

 the West, and a never-to-be-forgotten ride through tlio immense prairies. Mr. Barry, in 

 another article, has forestalled us in admiration, and wonder, and adjectives, to which, 

 however, we fully subscribe, but must let our reminiscences subside into something of a 

 calm before we can record the wonders of this, onother New World, just opened to man 

 by that civilizer, the Railroad. Illinois has now a population of a million and a half, 

 acainst 157,445 in 1830 ! 



Pennsylvania Horticultdeal Society. — A stated meeting of this Society was held on 

 Tuesday evening, at Concert Hall. The display of vegetables was quite large. A fine dis- 

 play of grapes were shown by M. W. Baldwin, Isaac B. Baxter, and the gardener to John 

 Anspach, exhibited several clusters of the white Syrian grape. John Pollock, gardener to 

 James Dundas, received a first premium for the best collection of twelve plants. Robert 

 Kilvington received a special premium of $2 for a pair of bouquets, and a pyramid of indi- 

 genous flowers. A specimen of the Grasliu Pear, a foreign variety, was exhibited for the 

 first time, by Robert Buist. The Chairman of the Committee on the Twenty-seventh exhi- 

 bition recommends the society to purchase tents for future exhibitions, as the last one in 

 Penn Square was eminently successful. A communication from the Secretary of the Har- 

 monia Sacred Music Society was read, requesting the appointment of a committee on the 

 part of the Society, to confer with one emanating from their Association, to take initiatory 

 steps in the erection of a hall of larger capacity than any at present existing ; and, on mo- 

 tion, a committee of three was appointed. Absence must excuse a longer notice this month. 



The Season Closes. — The great season of Exhibitions has now closed. Our journal has 

 recorded as much of their doings as was possible ; the greatest ethusiasm has prevailed every 

 where, and we close our number with the strongest impression that no Country and no period of 

 the world ever saw such a happy and industrious population as now peoples our continent. The 

 West bears oif the palm in some particulars, but we are not therefore disposed unjustly to un- 

 dervalue the activity of older settlements. 



